• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

14 Established 1961 Sports Monday, October 5, 2020 Photo of the day Eagle lifts England’s Reid to LPGA lead in New Jersey NEW YORK: Mel Reid fired an eagle and three birdies in a five-under par 66 on Saturday to seize a one-shot lead going into the final round of the LPGA ShopRite Classic. England’s Reid, who was one off the pace head- ing into the round, had 15-under par total at the Seaview resort in Galloway New Jersey, and was one in front of Americans Jennifer Song and Jennifer Kupcho, who both shot 65. It’s the second straight event that Reid, a six-time winner on the Ladies European Tour, has held the 54-hole lead in search of a first LPGA Tour title. She was two-up through three rounds in Portland but finished tied for fifth in a tournament won by com- patriot Georgia Hall in a playoff. “Another great opportunity this week to get it done,” Reid said. “Tomorrow I’m going to take my time a little bit more, and hopefully it will make a bit of a difference.” Reid put herself in position again with a quick start at Seaview, where she birdied the first and third. She was on the green in two at the par-five ninth and two-putted for birdie and a birdie at the 10th put her alone atop the leaderboard. “I knew it was always in me to do this,” Reid said. “I wasn’t sure how to get there. It has just taken me a lot more years than I expected it to.” Kupcho and Song both birdied the par-five 18th to close the gap. Kupcho’s four-foot birdie attempt wobbled a bit but dropped in the right side as she capped a bogey-free round. The 23-year-old had drained a daz- zling birdie putt at the 13th, her effort from the tier above the pin breaking wide and curling back toward the hole, finally dropping in the back side of the cup. “It was just Sean Garnier is seen in front of the Kuwait Towers in Kuwait. —Photo taken from www.redbullcontentpool.com curling and it just back-doored in,” Kupcho said. Song also played without a bogey, grabbing three birdies on each side for her share of second. —AFP Kitata sprints to London Marathon win as Kipchoge suffers rare defeat Favorite Kipchoge fades to eighth after suffering cramp LONDON: Ethiopian Shura Kitata outsprinted running as the field began to realize that, perhaps, marathons - the blip being a second place behind a Kenya’s Vincent Kipchumba to win a thrilling Kipchoge was struggling. They were right. The then-world record in his second outing over the London Marathon yesterday as a stunned world favorite, whose face never usually gives any indica- distance in Berlin in 2013. “I’m really disappointed, I record holder Eliud Kipchoge faded late in the race tion of suffering, was showing the occasional gri- had a problem with my right ear after it blocked, to suffer his first defeat since 2013. In cold, wet con- mace and he lacked his usual smoothness. At one and then I really cramped and had problems with ditions, 24-year-old Kitata edged clear in the final point the leaders clocked a five minute mile, a virtu- my hip from about the last 15 km,” he said. “It’s real- metres to win by one second over Kipchumba in a al jog at elite level. Then, as never previously seen ly cold but I don’t blame the conditions and I’m still relatively slow two hours, 05.41 minutes. during his all-conquering career, Kipchoge, 35, there to come back again.” Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia was third in 2:5.35, with broke, dropping back from a pack of six with just Earlier, Kenyan world record holder Brigid Kipchoge, the hot favorite, who in his last race a over three miles to go. Kosgei was a comfortable winner of the women’s year ago became the only man to break the two As the pace eventually picked up it was down to race in 2:18.58 as American Sara Hall produced a hour mark for the distance, eighth in 2:06.49 having three, shoulder to shoulder, as they entered The great finish to snatch second from Ruth suffered cramp and a blocked ear. In the absence of Mall in a finish more like an 800m race than a Chepngetich. The races, originally postponed from injured Kenenisa Bekele, Kipchoge was widely marathon. The tall Kipchumba looked as if he would April because of the COVID-19 pandemic, were run expected to lift a fifth London crown but was never do it as he edged ahead, but Kitata fought back over almost 20 laps of a fenced-off course in a able to impose his usual speed in the relentless cold magnificently to take the tape. Kitata, who finished “controlled secure biosphere” around St James’s rain. He was in a pack who went through halfway in second in London in 2018, thanked his missing com- Park. Although there was no mass field this year, just under 63 minutes - very pedestrian in relation patriot for his victory. “Kenenisa Bekele was helping around 40,000 people are running the distance at to his recent races, not least his official world record me for this race and he advised me how to run,” he venues of their choice through the day. They will LONDON: Winner, Ethiopia’s Shura Kitata poses with of 2:01.39 set in Berlin two years ago. said. “I trained for the same course, I am very happy receive official finisher’s medals and raise millions of his trophy in front of Buckingham Palace after the Ethiopians Lemma and Tamirat Tola, both sport- to win.” pounds for charities hard hit by the cancellation of elite men’s race of the 2020 London Marathon in cen- ing woollen hats to stave off the cold, took up the Kipchoge had won 12 of his 13 previous the April race. —Reuters tral London yesterday. —AFP rain throughout the week in Paris has turned the ground Enable bids for Arc at Longchamp into a real challenge for her. Dettori described the going as “heavy” after riding there on Saturday with fellow jockey Christophe Soumillon going Patriots-Chiefs NFL history, O’Brien further and saying it was the “most gruelling” he had ever game postponed experienced at the track. withdraws runners ‘A very calm horse’ PARIS: Enable bids to become the first horse to win the Enable’s trainer John Gosden mused it was “Nature’s after COVID tests Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe three times on Sunday, boosted way of getting back at us (humans)” after years of neglect- ing it. The 69-year-old Englishman, who along with Dettori NEW YORK: Yesterday’s scheduled NFL game by the shock withdrawal of Aidan O’Brien’s four runners. Frankie Dettori and Enable will now face just 10 rivals with is bidding for their fourth win in six editions of the Arc, between the New England Patriots and Kansas City fears the race is going to turn into a grim test of endurance. Chiefs was postponed by the league on Saturday the rain-affected ground at Longchamp racecourse the main obstacle to her making history. O’Brien withdrew his “She (Enable) doesn’t much like that ground. She prefers after positive COVID-19 tests by Patriots quarterback the easy side of good, so she can show her class, but it is PARIS: Italian jockey Frankie Dettori riding horse Cam Newton and Chiefs reserve Jordan Ta’amu. The quartet - which included the fancied Mogul and Epsom ‘Enable’ - reacts after finishing second during the Derby champion Serpentine - late on Saturday after they going to be a bit of a slog,” said Gosden. “It is drying up NFL postponed the contest to Monday or Tuesday in now and it is tacky, but you might get another shower or 2019 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe flat race at the the wake of the positive tests for the reigning Super tested positive for a banned substance. ParisLongchamp race track in Paris. —AFP It is believed the substance may have been in contami- two. “It is Longchamp, by the River Seine - it is deep.” Bowl champion Chiefs, who closed their facility Enable would not have been running but for seeing her according to the NFL Network, and Patriots, who nated horse feed. Leading English trainer Roger Varian hopes of a third successive Arc triumph last year dashed Stradivarius but he dislikes the ‘bottomless ground’ even altered plans to travel to Kansas City for the game. withdrew all seven runners he had racing in England on when runner-up having been collared by Waldgeist in the more than Enable. Winning the Arc has been the dream of “In consultation with infectious disease experts, Saturday due to using the same feed. Various batches of dying strides. “I think Prince Khalid (Abdullah her owner Japanese turfistes for decades but their one runner Deirdre both clubs are working closely with the NFL and the Gain Equine Nutrition feeds have been found to be con- and breeder) was brave in saying we’ll try again,” Gosden has been in poor form this year. Enable’s greatest dangers NFLPA to evaluate multiple close contacts, perform taminated with a prohibited substance. “Unfortunately the told English broadcaster ITV. “We’re here and we’re trying. appear to be the Jean Claude Rouget-trained duo Sotsass additional testing and monitor developments,” the results of the urine samples taken from the horses yester- We care about the filly in every way, she’s a gorgeous filly and Raabihah and Francis-Henri Graffard’s German Derby league said in a statement.

Load more

  1

Copy Link